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• #7327
Casa your an IT bloke aren't you? You'll find it a piece of cake.
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• #7328
It's surprisingly easy. And you do gain a lot from it.
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• #7329
And it's very rarely bricked, usually just needs some tinkering, which is fun.
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• #7330
I'd imagine J08 can fix it as it's doing something so is probably able to talk to his PC or restore from a back up (always do a nandroid). I know nothing about motorola phones though so won't be able to help, as always, XDA is your friend.
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• #7331
Have spent all afternoon trying to unroot/flash it, done everything by the book, but I'm missing a trick somewhere along the line. If anyone out there would be willing to have a look at it, I'll make it worth your while - PM. Desperate to get it up and running again. Cheers.
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• #7332
J08 does the PC pick it up?
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• #7333
J08 does the PC pick it up?
Yes, fully synced with RSDLite 4.9. Have tried flashing a new .sbf file and everything's looking good until after the final reboot when it returns to the bootloader screen (09.10) with the error msg Err:A5,69,35,00,27 and that's it.
Can't get into recovery mode.
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• #7334
i spent about 5-6 hours rooting my Desire Z, (there was no one-click, easy way to do it from a mac, it involved loads of terminal crap.) but i got there in the end. Not for the feint hearted (on the Z) for sure!
But now i have Virtous G-Lite running, and with the CPU control app (control processor speeds, eg. when screen off, processor goes down to 200mhz) the battery is AMAZING
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• #7335
I know rooting works for many people, but the example from ** J08** up there ^^^^^^^^ is exactly why I won't be doing it. Bricking your phone is a strong deterrent, thanks.
It's surely more of deterrent from ever purchasing a Motorola.
As you own a SGS 2 that must nearly be out of contract, here's the easiest way of rooting that I've ever found. You've proved you can read, so this won't even phase you, or more importantly that wonderful, but restricted, device you own.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1396952
Then download Titanium Backup Pro so you can backup all your apps and also make a nandroid backup in the CWM app provided with the root package. After that, choose your ICS ROM from the many now on offer, download it to your SD card and then flash it through recovery accessed using CWM. If it goes wrong, access recovery by pressing home, volume down and power simultaneously and reflash the backup you made in CWM which takes you back to stock. I personally now use AndyX 7.2 and have flashed each update (probably more than 10) successfully with absolutely no dramas whatsoever.
If you brick a SGS 2, you really have done something special.
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• #7336
What ICS roms are purple using on their GS2s? On AndyX 6.3 at the minute but it's too buggy for me.
edit, should have read up. 7.2 already? I only got this a couple weeks ago. Is it much better?
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• #7338
Looks like you'll want to be flashing as many sbf jobbies as you can until one works. Good luck.
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• #7339
What ICS roms are purple using on their GS2s? On AndyX 6.3 at the minute but it's too buggy for me.
edit, should have read up. 7.2 already? I only got this a couple weeks ago. Is it much better?
Been on it since Sunday and it seems very good. I didn't bother with 6.3 as it was supposedly one of the worst for bugs so I'd imagine this one will be loads better. I've had one reboot when I downloaded a pretty sketchy altimeter app without reading any reviews. Beyond that, everything seems super smooth and probably isn't too far away from what the official release will be* judging by how close we are to it.
*apart from the lack of touchwiz but then I didn't have a stock phone long enough to use it so can't comment if this is a bad thing or not
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• #7340
I would like to be able to run a virtual machine on my laptop, said VM to be running the latest Android OS (this is to see what the application is up to/for).
Is this the sort of thing which is easy of an IT person and impossibly difficult for a normal?
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• #7341
You can run the SDK emulator with java, not sure that's quite what you're after though.
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• #7342
i spent about 5-6 hours rooting my Desire Z, (there was no one-click, easy way to do it from a mac, it involved loads of terminal crap.) but i got there in the end. Not for the feint hearted (on the Z) for sure!
But now i have Virtous G-Lite running, and with the CPU control app (control processor speeds, eg. when screen off, processor goes down to 200mhz) the battery is AMAZING
Ha me too. Downgrade first using terminal was 'interesting'.
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• #7343
Very, very tempted to root my Galaxy S2 right now and I've only had it a week. My old HTC desire was running cynogen 7. I've had it off charge for 4 days now and It's just gone below 50%. That's bloody impressive.
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• #7344
@the_lush, I get 3 upgrades every 2 years, so it's one to 2 upgrades per year. I don't need to worry about the latest phones or versions of operating systems, as I will normally have it.
I had a friend that lived in Tampa, Florida, and his dad (multi-millionaire dentist) decided to insert a V12 Ferrari engine into a 2 door Mercedes convertible. Yes it worked, and was pretty amazing (I rode in it a few times), but I couldn't help thinking that it was ok as it was before.
Surely the battery life increase is the biggest pull, but haven't Samsung, or some other major company, given one of the top modders a fulltime job? Wouldn't that mean that these improvements will make their way to mobiles anyway?
I still don't see myself rooting, but I will give it another look.
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• #7345
I found with my HTC desire that when I rooted it was like a whole new phone.
The fact I could root - underclock the processor and it would still run better than before (no htc sense guff) was a big plus.
I reckon the GS2 will be incredible when rooted - from what I've seen already I'll go sim only once my contract is up (long way off yet though!!)
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• #7347
GA2G, I believe Cyanogen now works with Samsung but I assume anything done there will have to reflect their vision for the UI etc. The advantage of the custom roms is that you get a relatively pure Android system without any Samsung/HTC etc. guff on there. As long as you make a backup in CWM as soon as you root, you can always reinstate the original OS and wait for the official release.
If you brick it, and as mentioned before this is almost impossible to do if you can read, you can have mine which is running ICS very well. I'm that confident you won't do any harm. Whether you like what you get is another matter, but it is so easy to get back to original should this be the case.
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• #7348
I shall mull it over whilst drinking a cup of Earl Grey.
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• #7349
Took S2 off charge at 7am this morning - It's now almost 5 and I'm only down 13%
Need to work out how to update it via pc software too tonight since I'm still on 2.3 - there's an update for that yeah?
I think rooting my Desire is going to be a bit of a faff. Need to spend some time trying to sort it out.